Exodus 40:3
New International Version
Place the ark of the covenant law in it and shield the ark with the curtain.

New Living Translation
Place the Ark of the Covenant inside, and install the inner curtain to enclose the Ark within the Most Holy Place.

English Standard Version
And you shall put in it the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Berean Standard Bible
Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

King James Bible
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.

New King James Version
You shall put in it the ark of the Testimony, and partition off the ark with the veil.

New American Standard Bible
You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen off the ark with the veil.

NASB 1995
“You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

NASB 1977
“And you shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Amplified Bible
You shall place the ark of the Testimony there, and you shall screen off the ark [from the Holy Place of God’s Presence] with the veil (partition curtain).

Christian Standard Bible
Put the ark of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the curtain.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Put the ark of the testimony there and screen off the ark with the veil.

American Standard Version
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And set there the Ark of the Testimony and cover the Ark with the curtain.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and thou shalt place in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil,

Contemporary English Version
and put the chest with the Ten Commandments behind the inside curtain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And shalt put the ark in it, and shalt let down the veil before it:

English Revised Version
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Place the ark containing the words of my promise inside it, and hang the canopy over the ark.

Good News Translation
Place in it the Covenant Box containing the Ten Commandments and put the curtain in front of it.

International Standard Version
You are to put the Ark of the Testimony there, and screen off the ark with the curtain.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

Literal Standard Version
and have set the Ark of the Testimony [in] there, and have covered over the Ark with the veil,

Majority Standard Bible
Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

New American Bible
Put the ark of the covenant in it, and screen off the ark with the veil.

NET Bible
You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall put in it the ark of the covenant, and you shall screen the ark with the curtain.

New Heart English Bible
You shall put the ark of the testimony in it, and you shall veil the ark with the curtain.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.

World English Bible
You shall put the ark of the covenant in it, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

Young's Literal Translation
and hast set there the ark of the testimony, and hast covered over the ark with the vail,

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Context
Setting Up the Tabernacle
2“On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting. 3Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil. 4Then bring in the table and set out its arrangement; bring in the lampstand as well, and set up its lamps.…

Cross References
Hebrews 9:3
Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,

Exodus 26:33
And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 40:21
Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

Numbers 4:5
Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

1 Chronicles 17:5
For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.


Treasury of Scripture

And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil.

Exodus 40:20,21
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark: …

Exodus 25:10,22
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof…

Exodus 26:31,33,34
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: …

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Exodus 40
1. The tabernacle is commanded to be reared, anointed, and consecrated
13. Aaron and his sons to be sanctified
16. Moses performs all things accordingly
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(3) Thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony.--The most precious of the objects which the tabernacle was to contain was to be placed in it; first. Then immediately it was to be covered up with the vail.

Verse 3. - The first thing to be placed within the tabernacle was the ark of the testimony, as containing the foundation of the covenant between God and Israel, and being the special token of God's presence with his people. See the comment on Exodus 25:10. The "two tables" were placed within the ark before it was brought into the tabernacle (vers. 20, 21). Cover the ark with the veil - i.e., "hang up the veil in front of the ark, so as to cover or conceal it."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Put
וְשַׂמְתָּ֣ (wə·śam·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the Ark
אֲר֣וֹן (’ă·rō·wn)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 727: A chest, ark

of the Testimony
הָעֵד֑וּת (hā·‘ê·ḏūṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5715: Testimony

in it
שָׁ֔ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

and screen
וְסַכֹּתָ֥ (wə·sak·kō·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5526: To entwine as a, screen, to fence in, cover over, protect

off
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the ark
הָאָרֹ֖ן (hā·’ā·rōn)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 727: A chest, ark

with the veil.
הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃ (hap·pā·rō·ḵeṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6532: A separatrix, screen


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